Name: Mary Packham is the Adult Literacy/English as a Second Language Settlement Assistance Program co-ordinator – Cariboo Chilcotin Partners for Literacy -100 Mile House
Recent book read: The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration (e-book)
Favourite children’s book: Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood, illustrated by Don Wood
This is a beautiful, engaging, early-reading book for children. Occasionally, a picture is two-pages wide. In each scene, a little boy learns about the world and learns to imagine himself having the characteristics of the animals in the story.
Why I recommend it: Each page has one short line of repetitive verse with a beautiful accompanying illustration. An example is a picture of the boy smiling happily and a singing lark sitting on his head with the caption “I'm as happy as a lark.”
The child quickly learns to anticipate the next page by listening to the rhyming verse and filling in the next animal. You can bet you won't be allowed to skip a page as this book progresses though to the surprising and enjoyable end.